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A Dirty Shame

 2004
 89 minutes (1 hrs 29 mins)
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Production Country

United States

Director and Cast Quickview

Directed by

John Waters

Starring

Tracey Ullman · Johnny Knoxville · Selma Blair · Chris Isaak · Suzanne Shepherd · Mink Stole

Full cast & crew

Release dates

US release date US release
24th September 2004
United States release date United States release
24th September 2004
Portugal release date Portugal release
30th December 2004

Box Office Quickview

US box office

  • Box Office debut: 17th Sep '04
  • Debut position: 67
  • Highest position: 19
  • Debut gross: $29.4 Thousand
  • Total chart weeks: 7

Chart position history

UK box office

US box office

Global box office

Certificates

US
R

Tous publics

15

C

K-15

16

15

18

(Banned)

16+

A

16

6

16

14

16

16

18

18

R

M/16

16+

Total grosses

UK total gross
United Kingdom Flag  £0
US total gross
United States Flag  $1.3 Million
Global total gross
Global Flag  $0

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News from around the web
John Waters is cinema’s finest purveyor of trash – and A Dirty Shame is a pure, filthy spectacle  The Guardian Tue, 16th January 2024

‘A Dirty Shame’: John Waters’ misunderstood box-office bomb  Far Out Magazine Sun, 4th May 2025

Movies - review - A Dirty Shame DVD  BBC Tue, 20th September 2005

John Waters @ 75: A Dirty Shame (2004)  The Film Experience Sun, 2nd May 2021

A Dirty Shame: John Waters Interviewed  The Quietus Fri, 17th February 2017

Review: A Dirty Shame  Slant Magazine Thu, 29th July 2004